Law Enforcement Is Not The Answer

Best Of The Web Today reports that one of the suspects of the Madrid bombings is a Jamal Zougam. Zougam's was investigated in August of 2001 for suspicion of helping plot the attacks of 9/11.

Best Of The Web Today writes:

"A high-ranking Spanish investigator said Zougam had not been arrested during the 2001 crackdown because he was not implicated in specific crimes," the Times reports. Now, of course, he has been. The cost of waiting now stands at 201 lives.

Here they are exactly right. Because of Spain's exacting legal procedures, 201 people were killed. Now I'm not partial to the details of his arrest or release but our Western legal standards have come under extreme criticism and debate. From the prisoners at Guantanamo, to the legal bruhaha here in Canada over the Arar and Kahdr cases, and now to the Madrid bombings, we are starting to see how our legal systems are being used against us.

And I don't want to hear any of that crap concerning how if we bend our legal systems to be harder on the terrorists then the terrorists will have won. Hogwash. Our legal system is designed to bend with the times and to adjust depending on the situation. In the grand scheme of things I have very little fear that if our legal code is hardened to deal with terrorists and their supporters, that someday those same changes will be somehow used to implement some sort of facist or police state. Odds are in ain't gonna happen.

9/11 in and of itself could have been prevented had the FBI been able to legally prosecute the suspects they were investigating at the time. I'm not going to blame the FBI because we all know that if they would have tried to prosecute the suspects the cases would have been thrown out of court.

This is especially disturbing to me given John Kerry's statements that the War On Terror is exaggerated and that it should be fought primarily in the courts. If Kerry won the November election I really worry about the long term consequences to our way of life.

I honestly believe that Islamic Militarism must be fought and defeated. Militant Islam as far as I'm concerned has the potential to match the ambitions of the Nazis or Communists of the past century. Legalities would never have prevented their rise and it will never work with our current foe. Only time will tell if Islamic Terror will fade away into history by itself or if it will continue to thrive and spread. I'm just not willing to put the fate of our civilization into the hands of a few judges.